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Postcards, translators and esperanto pioneers
Esperanto has a rich and multifaceted history. Delving into a fascinating microhistory of a Scottish family and the ways in which they used Esperanto to build transnational networks across Europe, this book shows how ordinary Esperanto speakers used the language in its early decades. It explores ...
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Law and justice in the 1950s
Written for historians and legal specialists alike, this book reveals the stories behind the laws of 1950s England and Wales. Drawing on a range of fascinating case studies, it examines the social, political and economic contexts surrounding the considerable breadth of legal developments in the d...
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Migrating borders and citizenship in law
Devyani Prabhat’s groundbreaking book examines the multifarious ways in which law operates with borders, demarcating not only nations and territories, but people and migrants, residents and foreigners. From worldwide to the nation, family to the workplace, this interdisciplinary study explores th...
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Organised militarism in interwar britain
While militaristic and patriotic organisations formed an important part of Edwardian political culture, 1918 often marks a terminus for histories of organised militarism in Britain. Taking the end of the First World War as its starting point instead, this book is the first full-length study of mi...
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Exploring digital cultural heritage
As more of the world’s cultural heritage is digitised and born-digital, the questions posed by new digital archives and collections will bring complexity and challenges, but also opportunities. This book is an accessible starting point for those interested in the past, present and future of digit...
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Reframing failure in digital scholarship
Reframing Failure in Digital Scholarship tackles what failure – in all its messy but immensely valuable complexity – means for the digital humanities community. Through a series of reflections on failed, broken or challenging aspects of digital scholarship and practice, the book normalises failur...
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Going to the people
This book explores the development and popularity of illustrated rotocalco magazines in Italy in the 1930s and early 1940s. Analysing three representative magazines, Di Franco investigates the complex dynamics of cultural exchange defining Italian print culture under Fascism, and examines how the...
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The family firm
The Family Firm is the first major historical analysis of the way Buckingham Palace worked with the Church of England and the media to initiate a new public relations strategy in the period 1932-53. It argues that the monarchy’s deliberate elevation of a more informal and vulnerable family-centre...
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Unite, proletarian brothers!
Weaving together a range of everyday disputes and arenas of conflict, from tenant activism to strikes, boycotts to political violence, Unite, Proletarian Brothers! reveals how local cleavages and conflicts operating within the context of the Spanish Second Republic (1931-6) and interwar Europe ex...
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Adulthood in britain and the united states from 1350 to generation z
This is the first book to employ adulthood as a category of historical analysis, arguing that consideration of age is crucial for all scholarship that addresses power and inequality. Exploring how concepts of adulthood have changed over time in Britain and the United States from 1350 to the prese...
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Achieving access to justice in a business and human rights context
This book explores the interplay between access to justice and business and human rights in European civil-law countries. Focusing on Multinational enterprises (MNEs), which are rarely held accountable for their involvement in human rights abuses and environmental damage, it evaluates the extent ...
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Civilian specialists at war
The First World War was the first great conflict to be fought between highly industrial societies able to manufacture and transport immense quantities of goods to the field of battle. This book analyses the multiple connections between the military, the government and the senior executives of som...
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Thou shalt forget
Following a decade-long research project, this devastating book examines colonial state imperatives to sideline indigenous peoples and history from mainstream national narratives. Through the study of his community, the Essipiunnuat or, ‘People of the Brook Shells River’, the author hopes to comb...
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Medieval merchants and money
The essays in this volume were written in celebration of the scholarship of the medieval historian Professor James L. Bolton. They address a variety of questions in medieval economic and social history, and some look more widely at patterns of immigration to London, trade and royal policy, and th...
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Empty spaces: perspectives on emptiness in modern history
How is emptiness made and what historical purpose does it serve? What cultural, material and natural work goes into maintaining ‘nothingness’? This volume draws together contributions from authors working on landscapes and rurality, along with national and imperial narratives, and seeks to foregr...
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Church and people in interregnum britain
In 1645, as the First Civil War approached its end, a second Reformation took place which created profound dislocations in religion and in British society. The Church was disestablished, and historians continue to debate the extent of the social disruption that resulted, and the impact of godly p...
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Pieter geyl and britain
Pieter Geyl (1887—1966) was undoubtedly one of the most internationally renowned Dutch historians of the twentieth century, but also one of the most controversial. Geyl was an early example of a ‘public intellectual’ and remains one of the most influential thinkers on history of all time. This vo...
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Magna carta: history, context and influence
This book examines the history and influence of Magna Carta in British and American history. It considers the origins of the document in the context of the thirteenth century, the relevance of its principles to the seventeenth century disputes that led to the Civil War, the uses made of Magna Car...
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People, texts and artefacts
This volume seeks to enhance interdisciplinary and international dialogue between those who work on the Normans and their conquests in northern and southern Europe in an original way. It has as its central theme issues related to cultural transfer, treated as being of a pan-European kind across t...
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Individuals and institutions in medieval scholasticism
This volume explores the relationship between individuals and institutions in scholastic thought and practice across the twelfth and fifteenth centuries, taking a broad approach to scholasticism in its inclusion of ethics, history, heresy, law, inquisition, metaphysics, pastoral care, poetry, rel...
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Medieval londoners
Medieval London was host to a diverse group of people, some born there, others drawn to it from far away. It was a vibrant city, from which rich evidence has survived, including archaeological and documentary sources. This volume brings together archaeologists, historians, art historians and lite...
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We mark your memory: writings from the descendants of indenture
Indenture was the process whereby individuals entered, or were coerced, into an agreement to work in a colony in return for a fixed period of labour, but this was often open to abuses of power. Hidden within this little-known system of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Indian migration unde...
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Thomas frederick tout (1855–1929)
Thomas Frederick Tout (1855–1929) was arguably the most prolific English medieval historian of the early twentieth century. He also pioneered the use of archival research, welcomed women into academia and augmented the University of Manchester’s growing reputation for pioneering research. This bo...
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The creighton century, 1907-2007
This volume offers a selection of ten lectures from the first 100 years of the University of London’s prestigious Creighton Lecture series. Each of the chosen lectures is introduced and set in context by a historian of the modern-day University, providing a fascinating insight into the developmen...
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Reconciling rwanda
ContentsRwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) government departmentsGlossary of Kinyarwanda wordsChronology of key eventsIntroduction Contribution and engagement Conflict in context Gacaca: justice and reconciliation at the community genocide courts Nation-building and a return to unity Teaching the nati...
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The new refugees: crime and forced displacement in latin america
In Latin America, recent years have seen an unprecedented rise in the number of people forced to flee from their homes due to the activities of organised criminal groups. What are the reasons behind this emerging crisis of forced displacement in the Americas? Who are these criminal groups and how...
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Organised crime and migration
Human mobility, organised crime and corruption remain critical issues in Mexico and Central America. This book is the first to consider together three major, interconnected ways in which organised crime shapes migration in the region – as a driver of internal displacement and external migration, ...
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Coal country
This is the first book-length account of deindustrialization in the Scottish coalfields. The flooding and subsequent closure of Scotland’s last deep coal mine in 2002 brought a centuries long saga to an end. Colliery closures and job losses were not just experienced in economic terms: they had pr...
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Fasti ecclesiae anglicanae 1541–1857: the welsh dioceses xiv
The Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae is the standard authority for identifying the higher clergy of the Church of England from 1066–1857. This volume covers the Welsh dioceses from 1541–1857. Complete with a general introduction, explanatory commentary and introductions to the four dioceses, this is an...
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Literature for change
Literature for Change explores the impact literary research has made to areas including the museums and heritage sector, the environmental and medical humanities and the digital world, at a time of transformation. The book highlights efforts to address today’s most pressing social challenges thro...
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Prostitution, repentance and social welfare in renaissance florence
This book explores the survival of Sant'Elisabetta delle Convertite, the Florence monastery for repentant prostitutes, during the long Renaissance. Archival and manuscript sources reveal the strategies developed by the authorities and Convertite nuns, offering valuable insights into the relations...
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Open data in ancient and byzantine studies
Through a range of case studies, this book explores the impact of open-access and openly licensed data and code in classical and Byzantine studies. It argues for the potential that methods of centring interoperability, transparency and documentation in digital scholarship can bring to the study o...
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Insiders and outsiders in the history of law
Writing the history of law involves choices: whose stories are to be told, and how? This book examines the dividing lines drawn in the history of the law and the experiences of those who have fallen within and outside of them, across seven centuries of British legal history.
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